CATALOGUE. 159 



belly and neck below, pure white. Twelve to fourteen inches long, 

 and four to five high ; tail, with the hair, ten to eleven without it, 

 eight inches." 



This animal appears to represent the common Squirrel of northern 

 Europe and Asia in its winter dress. 



213. SCIURUS CHRYSONOTUS, Blyth. 



Sciurus chrysonotus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Eeng. XVI. 

 p. 873-, X.p. 920. 



HAB. Tenasserim Provinces, Blyth. 



A. Presented by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



" Size of Sc. Rafflesii, Vig. and Horsf., or measuring about 20 inches, 

 of which the tail is half, its hah 1 reaching 2 in. or 2J in. further. General 

 colour, grizzled fulvous above ; the limbs and tail grizzled ashy (from each 

 hair being annulated with black and pale fulvescent), with an abruptly- 

 defined black tip to the latter ; under-parts and inside of limbs pale 

 grizzled ashy. In bright specimens, the nape, shoulders, and upper 

 part of the back, are vivid light ferruginous, or golden fulvous, some- 

 times continued to the tail, more generally shading off, gradually 

 toward the rump, and in some but slightly developed even upon the 

 nape and shoulders ; whiskers long and black, and slight albescent 

 pencils to the ears, more or less developed. Common in the Tenas- 

 serim provinces." (Blyth, /. ciV.) 



214 SCIURUS CHINENSIS, Gray, Cat. M amm. Br. M us. 

 p. 144. 



HAB. China. 



A. Presented by John Reeves, Esq. 



Genus PTEROMYS, Cuv., Lee. d'Anat. I. 1800. Fischer, Schinz, 

 et al 



SCIURI spec., Linn., Pallas, et al. 

 f Flying Squirrels with cylindrical tails. 

 215. PTEROMYS PETAURISTA, Pallas, Sp. 

 Sciurus petaurista, Pallas, Miscell. p. 54. 

 Pteromys petaurista, Blyth, Journ. As. Beng. XVI. p. 865. 

 Pteromys oral, TicMl, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 11. p. 401. 

 Taguan, ou grand ecureuil volant, Buff., Hist. Nat. Suppl. 



III. p. 150. 

 ORAL, of the Coles, Lieut. Tickell. 



